somnambulanceWords do no justice.
How much do I love you, girl?
I can't even remember when I heard you first. If I had to guess, it was while I was thumbing through the Stones Throw site for new sound to devour.
Before I knew it, mama was tearing up my top artists list here (which was kind of interesting, considering most of the listening I did to Tim Hecker, my previous top artist, was done in my sleep). I'm screaming on shoutboxes, "Georgia Anne Muldrow for president!"
What have you done to me, girl? I am your willing pawn.
Your debut EP, Worthnothings, is straight FIRE. FI-YER.
Larva, you slap these gutter ass beats together with all sorts of whipped silky soulful vocal toppings. You ever watch Project Runway? It reminds me of that one dress Andrae made that was inspired by the dirty gutter water. Stunning. You "made it work." Nothingness reminds me of Chaka Khan in outer space. Lo Mein, while showcasing no harps, reminds me in spirit of that one album Dorothy Ashby did based on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Intimate, spiritual. You flipped it, though, into some lush chamber soul for the future-funk set.
Olesi: Fragments Of An Earth opens crazy-like. The piano on New Orleans reminds me of McCoy Tyner's licks on Greeting To Saud (Brother Mccoy Tyner), only now in service of tragedy made sonic, sloshing like so much breached levee water against an ominous marcher's drum roll. You wail, "THERE'S A HISTORY/MYSTERY IN THIS WATER, THAT THEY DON'T SHOW!"
"Supreme water!" It giveth and taketh away.
I guess what I love the most about Georgia is that she puts a female face on this avant-afro revival that's been going on with the rise of MF DOOM, Stones Throw, the canonization of Dilla, and this point where the pleasant-if-sometimes-sterile neo-soul in a Me'Shell Ndegéocello or a Jill Scott mold is merging with a left-field hip-hop aesthetic to create a sort of hip hop soul, part deux. Where Georgia is sort of the Mary J. Blige of this shit, even as she pulls from influences removed from both hip-hop and soul milieux. free jazz, art rock...
I could get really in-depth about every track on every album, but I could go on and on and on and never stop. Some influences I'm picking up, and some influences she cites: Rick James, Pete Rock, RZA, Björk (esp. Vespertine, Medúlla), J Dilla, Alice Coltrane, Joni Mitchell's The Hissing Of Summer Lawns, Sun Ra, David Bowie's artier ish (Low, Heroes and the like), John Coltrane, Milton Nascimento, Laura Nyro, Madlib, Eric Dolphy...
Sagala and Beautiful Mindz are two releases out this year that bear Ms. Muldrow's mark. The former is a solo EP (performed as Pattie Blingh and The Akebulan Five) that might be her tightest work yet. Continues the thread of her previous releases, but takes it further spaceward and adds some more rockish elements to the mix. Beautiful Mindz has 2tall on the boards, with Georgia and constant collaborator Dudley Perkins (seeT. Biggums Feat. Dudley Perkins & Georgia Anne Muldrow) as featured vocalists.
As I just found out last night, the two of them are about to drop a full-length next month as G&D. Georgia producing and vocalizing, Dudley doing Dudley. After hearing the new tracks on their mySpace, I'm pretty thoroughly geeked. September 25th. I'm there.
If you haven't checked this woman out yet, GET ON THAT.
I will now close this fanboy rant by namedropping some guest spots she's done. There's One Minute More, Lights Out, and Your Day Is Done for Platinum Pied Pipers, the aforementioned 2tall and Oh No spots, "Might As Well" by J*DaVeY,Rise by Dwight Trible & the Life Force Trio, "Fly Away" with Sa-Ra and Erykah Badu... other stuff I'm forgetting.
Georgia, have I mentioned I love you? Please do a collab with Flying Lotus. He's Alice Coltrane's nephew, you know.
How much do I love you, girl?
I can't even remember when I heard you first. If I had to guess, it was while I was thumbing through the Stones Throw site for new sound to devour.
Before I knew it, mama was tearing up my top artists list here (which was kind of interesting, considering most of the listening I did to Tim Hecker, my previous top artist, was done in my sleep). I'm screaming on shoutboxes, "Georgia Anne Muldrow for president!"
What have you done to me, girl? I am your willing pawn.
Your debut EP, Worthnothings, is straight FIRE. FI-YER.
Larva, you slap these gutter ass beats together with all sorts of whipped silky soulful vocal toppings. You ever watch Project Runway? It reminds me of that one dress Andrae made that was inspired by the dirty gutter water. Stunning. You "made it work." Nothingness reminds me of Chaka Khan in outer space. Lo Mein, while showcasing no harps, reminds me in spirit of that one album Dorothy Ashby did based on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Intimate, spiritual. You flipped it, though, into some lush chamber soul for the future-funk set.Olesi: Fragments Of An Earth opens crazy-like. The piano on New Orleans reminds me of McCoy Tyner's licks on Greeting To Saud (Brother Mccoy Tyner), only now in service of tragedy made sonic, sloshing like so much breached levee water against an ominous marcher's drum roll. You wail, "THERE'S A HISTORY/MYSTERY IN THIS WATER, THAT THEY DON'T SHOW!"
"Supreme water!" It giveth and taketh away.
I guess what I love the most about Georgia is that she puts a female face on this avant-afro revival that's been going on with the rise of MF DOOM, Stones Throw, the canonization of Dilla, and this point where the pleasant-if-sometimes-sterile neo-soul in a Me'Shell Ndegéocello or a Jill Scott mold is merging with a left-field hip-hop aesthetic to create a sort of hip hop soul, part deux. Where Georgia is sort of the Mary J. Blige of this shit, even as she pulls from influences removed from both hip-hop and soul milieux. free jazz, art rock...
I could get really in-depth about every track on every album, but I could go on and on and on and never stop. Some influences I'm picking up, and some influences she cites: Rick James, Pete Rock, RZA, Björk (esp. Vespertine, Medúlla), J Dilla, Alice Coltrane, Joni Mitchell's The Hissing Of Summer Lawns, Sun Ra, David Bowie's artier ish (Low, Heroes and the like), John Coltrane, Milton Nascimento, Laura Nyro, Madlib, Eric Dolphy...
Sagala and Beautiful Mindz are two releases out this year that bear Ms. Muldrow's mark. The former is a solo EP (performed as Pattie Blingh and The Akebulan Five) that might be her tightest work yet. Continues the thread of her previous releases, but takes it further spaceward and adds some more rockish elements to the mix. Beautiful Mindz has 2tall on the boards, with Georgia and constant collaborator Dudley Perkins (see
T. Biggums Feat. Dudley Perkins & Georgia Anne Muldrow) as featured vocalists.As I just found out last night, the two of them are about to drop a full-length next month as G&D. Georgia producing and vocalizing, Dudley doing Dudley. After hearing the new tracks on their mySpace, I'm pretty thoroughly geeked. September 25th. I'm there.
If you haven't checked this woman out yet, GET ON THAT.
I will now close this fanboy rant by namedropping some guest spots she's done. There's One Minute More, Lights Out, and Your Day Is Done for Platinum Pied Pipers, the aforementioned 2tall and Oh No spots, "Might As Well" by J*DaVeY,
Rise by Dwight Trible & the Life Force Trio, "Fly Away" with Sa-Ra and Erykah Badu... other stuff I'm forgetting.Georgia, have I mentioned I love you? Please do a collab with Flying Lotus. He's Alice Coltrane's nephew, you know.
